1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.